Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usWed, 09 May 2012 13:53:40 +0000The Morning GIF: Lion attacks baby behind glasshttp://www.dailydot.com/upstream/morning-gif-lion-attack-baby-zoo/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/19/db/19db7b9df045192aca9610f163c281f0.jpg'></p><p>
<em>Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we&rsquo;re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular&mdash;or just plain cool&mdash;GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or elsewhere on the Internet.</em></p>
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This wasn&#39;t your average trip to the zoo.</p>
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The proof is in this GIF, taken from a viral YouTube video of an innocent baby being relentlessly, and fruitlessly, attacked by a lioness. Jack the Baby 1; Kya the Lioness 0.</p>
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According to the YouTube comments, Jack was always perfectly safe, as he&rsquo;s on the far side of a thick sheet of DuPont SentryGlas, and his parents are more preoccupied with getting the correct portrait layout than with whether or not their zebra-striped son is inflaming a wild creature to slavering madness with only a half-inch of <a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html">supercooled technology</a> between them.</p>
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YouTuber and proud parent jpbsmama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jpbsmama">explains</a>,</p>
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At the zoo in Portland, Oregon the usually lazy lioness, Kya, tries desperately to eat my son through the glass. Jack is coincidentally dressed like a baby zebra in his black and white striped hoodie. He is brave though and calls her &quot;kitty kitty&quot;. That&#39;s my boy.</p>
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Tumblr user <a href="http://goodnightandjoybewithyou.tumblr.com/post/22362248690">Erin</a> loved the video so much she gave it the GIF treatment, enlarging it significantly to a much more impressive stature. It was quickly picked up by <a href="http://gifs.1000notes.com/post/22496390334">AbsoluteBestGifs</a> and passed around, to the tune of 7800 notes.</p>
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It&rsquo;s true. The Internet is made of cats, the bigger the better.</p>
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raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Wed, 09 May 2012 13:53:40 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/upstream/morning-gif-lion-attack-baby-zoo/NewsTumblrUpstream